GOT DUMPED? HERE'S HOW TO FORGET YOUR EX

1. Sometimes it is best to try to block out your feelings so why not start a new hobby or join a club/group  2. Delete them from any social websites or from phone contacts. 3. Perhaps try avoiding them for a while. When you don't see somebody for a while, your feelings begin to fade. 4. If you can't avoid them, just think of all the good reasons that you are better without them. 5. You will find someone better. There are plenty more fish in the sea...so start looking! 6. Make new friends. Meeting new people is often a good way to take your mind off somebody. You may even fall for someone else. 7. Focus on all the...

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ATHEISM VERSUS THEISM

As an atheist, I take great caution in posting and talking about religious views opposing believers' faith as to not to offend them. I have posted and forwarded several points against religious indoctrination and man, theists, some how, forgetting that they belong to different religions, sects and denominations unite, and object me to severe tirade. Accusations like how can I say that God is a figment of man's imagination and that I am blasphemous are hurled on me. Truth has only one face; lies have many. If God exists, he won't have many different incomparable entities. The description of god by different religions and civilizations...

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MY 'HURRY UP & LOSE WEIGHT DIET'

You feel fat, bloated, and are most likely stopped up with shit(literally). Here is my own quick fix to when I have stuffed my Italian face with FAR too much food....for weeks...or sometimes months :P Breakfast- 2 Large Bananas 240 calories (bananas increase your body's fat burning by 35%, and fiber is very filling, so you don't get hungry all day) or sometimes 2  hard boiled eggs 140 calories Lunch- 1 avocado-322 calories 1 bowl of tomato soup-200 calories Snack- Dill baby pickles 0 calories each Dinner- Fish, chicken, turkey sausage, etc 315 calories  green beans, spinach, etc 70 calories Calories total: 1,147 Then...

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LOVE IS REAL; GOD IS A LIE

Love Is Real—God Is Not Humans are a species of the animal kingdom. Love exists as an attribute of many animals—including humans—absent unreal & unnatural god ideas (Any human that thinks love is an attribute only of their own kind has never observed the rest of the animal kingdom closely enough). Kindness and compassion constitute the foundation of human ethics and morality—absent the “unreal & unnatural god ideas.” The godless human animal is not immoral for being biologically natural. Natural biological human needs are not an ethical or moral issue. Biologically natural humans are inherently good and without...

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NERDS: AS POMPOUS AND SELF ENTITLED AS JOCKS!

Here we are, in the age of the geek/nerd. Everyone is digging all the amazing new comic/sci fi movies hitting, all the amazing video games...comic con has grown into an event bigger than burning man. Yet, there seems to be a problem. Instead of celebrating and embracing all the noobs who are digging our culture, nerds are acting as cliquey and elitist as the jocks who shunned them in school! I can give three sh*ts if the hot booth babe at gentle Giant doesn't know shit about the Lord of The Rings. If her "fake geek"ness is helping generate more movies and more content for fans..WHY DOES IT MATTER? Who cares if someone is "not a real nerd"....

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BEING KIND PAYS

A friend of mine's niece is currently in the ICU fighting for her life. 15 years old, beautiful, fighting leukemia & the complications that go with it & chemo. Money is something Cancer seems to eat up more than human beings. The next few weeks I am raising money for both Taylor and for my annual YMCA Stair Climb in Downtown LA. This month, I am helping kids. I watched a documentary called "meet the natives". Native villagers from an Island called Tanna visit the world and try to spread their word of peace. Upon seeing homeless people, they were so confused. In their village, they are socialists. Everyone has the same amount and...

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ANIMAL RIGHTS: THE MOST RADICAL IDEA IN HISTORY

Animal Rights is the most radical social and political idea in human history. It flies in the face of thousands of years of religious practices and beliefs! It defies human self-interest, arrogance, cruelty and bigotry. Animal Rights re-defines what it means to be a human being. It is the closest people have ever come to being spiritual, caring and compassionate creatures. It is a philosophy more radical than democracy. More radical than ending human slavery! More radical than any religion. More radical than any concept in history. Animal Rights is the radical notion that animals have as much right to be on this planet as humans have....

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THE DISTORTION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS THAT WE ARE COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS OF

What we do as animal rescuers and advocates matters. It matters to the fortunate animals we help. It matters that we save pets from shelters, that we foster the homeless, that we make phone calls and send emails, that we get a friend or family member to go vegan. But in the scheme of things, we are pissing into the wind. We are trying turn back the tide with tea cups. Imagine a world in which all of our efforts were successful: Imagine every dog and cat having a home. No more strays, puppy mills or pet shops. Imagine no more death camp "shelters." Imagine the end of the dog meat trade. Imagine no more whaling or sealing. No more...

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SLAVERY DOESN'T APPLY TO HUMANS ALONE; IT APPLIES TO ANIMALS TOO

We go about our days, and sleep soundly at night, thinking that all is well in this planet, that slavery has been conquered. We cannot be more wrong. Along with human trafficking and modern day labor bondage, billions of animals are enslaved for the most inhumane intents possible. Every day I wake with a heavy heart. Fifty million animals were murdered while I slept. Another two million were born into slavery while I showered. A million while I dressed, two million during breakfast. As I type these words, 500,000 are terrified, waiting in lines to die. Millions more are enroute to slaughterhouses. Feeling, innocent creatures,...

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GLOBAL WARMING: EARTH'S REVENGE

There are no shortages of pundits and prognosticators with opinions on the future of mankind. Most focus on technology and scientific breakthroughs in manufacturing, communications, transportation, and energy production. I am not a futurist, and have no credentials except those of an historian. My observations and speculations are made from an historical perspective and logically follow from recent and current political, social, and economic trends. That said, I believe they are as valid as any and more valid than most. My basic premise is that humanity will act too little and too late to avert the catastrophe of global...

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POPE FRANCIS, THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON ON EARTH

There is one man on Earth who could hasten the arrival of Animal Rights by decades, if not centuries. Pope Francis. In my opinion, the most significant pope in history. Pope Francis has proven himself to be the most Liberal, most ecumenical, most enlightened pope the world has ever seen. He has denounced capitalism, he has renounced orthodox Catholic concepts that have long alienated and separated people of different faiths. He has embraced atheists, rejected Hell, cleaned house in the Vatican, turned palaces into soup kitchens, walks with the poor, and is more like Jesus than any pope has ever been. Considering the entrenched Conservatives...

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MOST CHURCHES OPPOSE FREEDOM

Assertions that churches and religious leaders led movements for social change in America, and continue to do so, are based primarily on Quaker (Society of Friends) and Unitarian roles in the Abolitionist movement and the involvement of Black churches in the Civil Rights movement. A more critical analysis of mainstream religious participation in great social change finds religious institutions to have been more opposed to change than supportive of it. The high water mark for making an imprimatur on society was undoubtedly in the Abolitionist opposition to slavery. However, even then, most churches were of the opinion that slavery was...

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THE DISCREPANCIES OF RELIGIOUS MORAL CODES: WHICH ONE IS TRUE?

There is a popular belief in theists that humans cannot cultivate morals by themselves - humans need to be 'taught' morals from God and the method employed is religion. But, there is not only A RELIGION; there are many religions and each of what the religions sanctions and propagates is different from another religion. What is righteous in one religion is sin in another. WHICH ONE IS TRUE? MEAT EATING: Hinduism expounds ahimsa, non violence and meat eating is forbidden, especially beef. Cows are considered sacred by the Hindus because cows sustain households; they give milk, dung for fuel and fertilizer and till the land. Other domesticated...

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WHY THE BIBLE IS EVIL

Disclaimer: This is purely the author's view. Both Coin neither agrees to nor share the view of the author. It is illegal to sell children. That follows from it being illegal to own children. Children are not property. We are not owners, we are guardians. So it should be with animals. No living being should be able to own another. Or be allowed to sell or buy another. Owning another being is slavery, whether human or animal. Human and animal slavery are rooted in the Bible. The Bible codifies the bigotry, ignorance, and worldviews of a backward tribe of goat herders who lived 2,500 years ago.  To seriously give credence...

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NO GOD REQUIRED TO EXPOUND MORALS

How does one know right from wrong? That philosophical question addresses the roots of religion. The theologian questions how an atheist can have a moral compass without a god. The atheist wonders what deists are capable of were they not held in check by the carrot and stick of religion: Heaven and Hell. Throughout most cultures, from time immemorial, one can see almost universal perceptions of morality. Murder and theft are denounced by all religions, and by the non-religious as well. Religions only seem to add window dressing to the basic human sense of right and wrong. Judaism and Islam forbid consuming pork and allow multiple...

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FACING THE FEAR OF LOSING YOUR JOB

Nowadays, almost everybody worries about what will happen in the future in regards to their job. The prospect of not knowing if you will be downsized can be very stressful. As a result, here is a list of techniques and suggestions on how to manage the fear of losing your job. The first step is to get into the habit of always updating your skills just in case something would happen. Learning how to use a computer or learning how to use the latest software are ways to keep abreast in today’s market. Continuous education in your field of work will also help you. If for some reason you do lose your job, having the proper skills will reduce the...

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